Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [5]

A closer look at the tile work. They are called 'seven-color" (haft-rang) tiles. Each color on the tile is baked separately.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [3]

Upward view just before the entrance porch. The dome makes a world inside the mosque within the outside world, a sky under the sky, giving you the sense of being in the world.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [2]

A closer view to the mosque with another perspective and a little bit more detail.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [1]

Sheikh-Lotfollah is a small mosque in the Naqsh-e-Jahan grand square in Isfahan. It's like a prayers room. However the architecture of the mosque is extraordinary. The colors and the proportions of the mosque, specially the proportions of the dome are unique. I'll post a series of pictures showing the rout from outside of the mosque to inside.

Weekly bazaar [5]

The plastic toys! Children are carefuly searching to find what they are looking for. On the opposite side was the nuts seller. 

Weekly bazaar [4]

A younger boy selling different kinds of apetizers and pickles.

Weekly bazaar [3]

Browsing through my old photos I noticed this picture from the same theme as yesterday. I like the friendly gesture in his face. I wonder if he really is as old as he looks.

Just a flower

 

Weekly bazaar [2]

Weekly bazaar

A woman selling her products in a weekly bazaar in Chaboksar. I took this picture 3 years ago with my first digital camera. 

Dancing-Minaret

This is a closer view of the minaret from my previous post. The special thing about these two minarets is that if one of them is shaken (for example if someone goes inside it and tries to shake it) the movement will shake the other one as well. This is really strange and people come to see the phenomena on daily on special hours. A masonary building dating back from 600 years ago which its minarets still dance some 10 times a day.
Nobody knows how the builders managed to do this but it's said that they made a dancing building in order to cope with earthqauke which is a very common thing in the region. 

Shadows in perspective

Wolf's yesterday picture inspired me to post this photo of Menar-Jonban (verbally meaning 'Dancing-Minaret') here. Menar-Jonban is in Isfahan. 

Under the rain

While walking in a rural lane I founfd that the rain shows us more things that otherwise were not easy to see. I found hundreds of spider webs! The architect is present too. 

Flowers

Going back to my previous theme, here I'm posting one of my old photos of beautiful flowers.
 

Saveh Jame-Mosque

Today I'm into posting pictures from this mosque! This is a wider internal view of the porch in my two last posts. Showing how the previous decorations were covered by the newer finishing. You can see a very brief view of the minaret of the mosque in the right side of the picture.
The shadows are very interesting too. 

Saveh Jame-Mosque

View of the porch (from the previous post) from the internal court.
You may find my previous posts of Saveh Jamei-Mosque here: 1, 2, 3. 

Saveh Jame-Mosque

A Jame-Mosque is lieka cathedral in a cith, which may have several mosques. This picture again shows a subtle older brick-work which was later covered by gypsum for adding a new part (a porch) to the mosque. You'll see the porch in my next post. 

The ages [2]

This is a wide view of my previous post (The ages). The feeling of being present in such a place which is reconstructed, and as such reinterpreted, through the ages by different people is terrifying. 

Wild flowers in the rain

 

Yellow flowers in the rain [3]

 

Yellow flowers in the rain [2]

I shot these series last year with a Coolpix 2000 (one of the cheapest Nikons ever). I think it did a great job for macro shooting. 

Yellow flowers in the rain [1]

 

Light and life [2]

Again in side Sheikh-Lotfollah Mosque in Isfahan. It's just incredible.
By the way my friend has extensively updated his blog in "nay o ney".

The ages

Layers of construction and re-construction in a historic monument (Saveh Jame-Mosque). Each layer represents a generation who has succeeded in realizing his own ideas in a single monument in relation with what has gone in the past. I think we modern architects cannot add anything to this great phenomenon.

Light and life